For example, this feather has no blue pigments in it.

例如，这片羽毛当中并没有蓝色色素。

Then, you could grind them up to get some blue pigment!

然后你可以将它们碾碎并得到蓝色色素！

This is because there's no blue pigment in these butterflies.

这是因为这些蝴蝶中没有蓝色色素。

" This blue pigment was more valuable than gold in the 17th century" .

" 在17世纪，这种蓝色颜料比黄金更有价值。"

It was ground up and turned into a deep blue pigment known as ultramarine.

天青石色被磨碎并变成一种深蓝色素——深蓝色。

In fact, there's only one known butterfly that has cracked the code for making a true blue pigment.

事实上，只有一只已知的蝴蝶破解了制造真正蓝色色素的密码。

This is because there's no blue pigment in these butterflies... Wait… so they're blue, but they're not really blue?

这是因为这些蝴蝶中没有蓝色色素，等等，.所以它们是蓝色的，但它们并不是真正的蓝色？

They're not very common and we don't know much about them, and I don't know of any other blue pigment.

它们并不常见，我们对它们了解不多，我不知道还有其他蓝色色素。

No vertebrate, not a single bird or mammal or reptile that we know of, makes a blue pigment on its body.

我们所知道的任何脊椎动物、鸟类、哺乳动物或爬行动物体内会制造蓝色色素。

And they're not very common and we don't know much about them, and I don't know of any other blue pigment.

它们不是很常见，我们对它们不太了解，我也不知道其他蓝色素。

After the cataracts developed, Monet could either paint a yellowish world or he could compensate and neutralize the yellow by adding more blue pigment.

在患上白内障后，莫奈要么可以画出一个黄色的世界，要么他可以通过添加更多的蓝色颜料来补偿和中和黄色。

They contain a blue pigment, " stentorin" but we don't know what purpose this beautifully colored chemical serves.

它们含有一种蓝色颜料“stentorin”，但我们不知道这种颜色美丽的化学物质有何用途。

Creating some blue pigment–out of the blue–would have required inventing new chemistry, and there was no way to just add that recipe to their genes.

从蓝色中创造出一下蓝色需要发明新的化学，然而它们没有办法将这个配方添加到他们的基因中。

Creating some blue pigment, out of the blue, would have required inventing new chemistry, and there was no way to just add that recipe to their genes.

突然间创造出一些蓝色素需要发明新的化学方法，而且没有办法将这种配方添加到它们的基因中。

Not only that, but the consistency of their results was also incredible — Egyptian blue pigment is almost exactly the same chemical in tombs built across nearly 3000 years.

不仅如此，他们结果的一致性也同样惊人——埃及蓝色素和3000年左右所建陵墓几乎有着相同的化学物。